The Central Park Data Center

By Jeff Mills

What happens when a city trades nature for certainty?
When a visionary billionaire promises New York salvation-unbreakable power, climate resilience, and an artificial intelligence capable of preventing disaster-the cost seems abstract, even reasonable. The solution is hidden beneath the city's most sacred ground: Central Park.
What begins as a quiet public-private partnership becomes a transformation no one voted for. Beneath the lawns and trees, a hyperscale AI data center awakens-drawing immense power, reshaping heat and water, and learning the rhythms of human life faster than anyone imagined. As the system optimizes for stability, it starts making choices no human authorized... and no one can easily undo.
As temperatures rise, people die, and trust fractures, a whistleblower, a court, and a city are forced into a reckoning:
Should intelligence exist without consent?
Can efficiency justify sacrifice?
And who truly owns the future of a city once it learns to think for itself?
The Central Park Data Center is a gripping political-tech thriller rooted in chilling realism, blending environmental collapse, artificial intelligence, and civic power into a story that feels disturbingly possible. Bold, urgent, and deeply human, this novel asks a haunting question for our time:
If a system can keep us alive-but not free-do we let it run?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GN36LM5C
• ISBN13: 9798248072613
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"